Investment Staff Turnover Consistently High

The level of staff changes within the UK fund management industry should not be taken lightly. The impact key personnel departures can cause to the overall investment team and the subsequent performance of client portfolios under management can be significant.

Exploring new avenues -- 1 March 2005

Multi-managers are starting to be used for applications outside their core competency of blending manager styles.

When enough is enough -- 1 February 2005

It's been said, in Denmark anyway, that bad is never good until worse happens.

Solutions or Conflicts -- 27 January 2005

Solutions or Conflicts: Is the increasing development of products such as multi-manager funds and investment platforms by advisers creating conflicts of interest?

Trustee Decisions -- 27 January 2005

The burden of responsibility placed on the shoulders of trustees has been intensifying over the past few years and continues to spiral in the run-up to A-Day.

The Property Hype -- 01 January 2005

With the traditional asset classes failing to realise major returns over the past few years, investors have been looking to alternative investments.

Talk of commercial property's increased weighting in pension funds tends to be driven by larger schemes.

The past few years have seen a proliferation in the number of managers of managers and funds of funds.

Investment Solutions picks up Minit DB brief -- 26 July 2004

The pension fund of shoe-repairer Minit UK has appointed multi-manager Investment Solutions to manage its 10 million-pounds (15.06 million-euro) defined benefit pension scheme.

The way forward for SMEs -- 22 April 2004

The institutional multi-manager market finally seems to be taking off in the UK, with the industry expected to build on the growth experienced in the market throughout 2003.

Jury still out on active vs. passive -- 23 February 2004

Much has been written and debated on the subject of active vs passive (index tracking) investment management approaches.

Multi-manager Investment Solutions Limited, part of the Alexander Forbes Group, announced today that it has been appointed by Maiden Outdoor, one of the largest outdoor media owners in the UK, to manage the closed defined benefit (DB) pension scheme for British Transport Advertising Limited, which was acquired by Maiden Outdoor in 1995.